[lbo-talk] Raising my kids right/Going Legit

[Jerry Monaco]

On 4/13/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> The other night, concluding a political discussion at
> dinner about the international arms trade, the
> Iran-Contra scandal, US policy in Iraq, the AG
> firings, the disappearance of habeas corpus, etc., my
> thirteen year old (14 tomorrow) son pronounced:
>
> "I promise you on the souls of my children that in
> five years, ten at the most, the United States
> government will be completely legitimate."
>

J.M.: "Every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in!"

Well there can be worse political educations than "The Godfather
Trilogy"....  And I can see you were rather proud of your son!  I
didn't know kids still watched the damn movie.

But I do know the feeling!   We will never go legit.

For 3 gens half of my family were cops and lawyers and the other half
gangsters and mobsters.  And frankly I could never tell the difference
very much...

What are you to do? Once you're in, you're in.  The only other choices
are bankruptcy and drugs.  Or death... or jail because of a failure to
pay taxes.  It doesn't look like anyone is going to kills us or bust
us for not paying our taxes so I'm betting we'll go bankrupt and burn
ourselves out with carbon and cocaine.  The Great American Empire will
go down decrepit and dying -- its children murdered on the steps of
some opera house, its allies slaughtered as enemies --  before it ever
goes legit.

Jerry